[arin-ppml] Term Limit Proposal

[Martin Hannigan]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Martin Hannigan <hannigan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 5:21 PM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
>>
>> > Change for change's sake is rarely for the better. Stability is
>
> Agreed.
>
>>
>> > usually a good thing. I don't see rotating out AC members having a
>> > negative impact on ARIN's overall stability. Frequent turnover on the
>> > board, however...
>
>
> I believe "term limits" to the AC currently to be a solution in search of a
> problem.

Good for you.


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>> As far as term limits go, there are a multitude of organizations that
>> use them and suffer little from it including federal, state and
>> municipal governments, non profts like the Appalachian Mountain Club,
>> NANOG, and many others.
>
>
> These are much larger entities.   There are a large number of people who
> could serve on the board of a non-profit or governmental entity.
> There are few who are even sufficiently familiar with the NRPM and technical
> issues surrounding IP addressing policy  to do the AC's job..
>

What does that have to do with operating an open and transparent
framework for all of us to do the work? Zip.

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> They are not ARIN.      Many governmental, commercial, and non-profit
> organizations take on their activities in a manner that would not
> necessarily be appropriate for ARIN.
>

As tasty as red-herrings are, they're usually obvious.




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